Associate Lecturer, Asian Studies at Macquarie University. Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. Areas of interest are cross-cultural/intercultural communication and popular culture discourse in English and Japanese.
| Humor in Manzai Stand-up Comedy: A Historical and Comparative Analysis | |||
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This paper explores humor of manzai, or contemporary Japanese stand-up comedy, from a historical and comparative perspective. |
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| Performativity of Japanese Laughter | |||
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This paper will examine Japanese humoristic verbal discourses manzai (Japanese stand-up comedy performance), paying a particular attention to their performativity. |
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| Playfulness in Classroom Interactions: A Sociocultural Approach | |||
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This paper uses Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach to examine collaborative language play in an ESL class. |
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